When comparing Greenfield vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Hyprland for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Hyprland is ranked 3rd while Greenfield is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Hyprland is:
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Pro Smooth
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Pro Uses wlroots
The best Wayland compositor library built on standards.
Pro Plugins
Has a plugin system.
Pro Beautiful
Pro Easy to customize
Has a nice wiki which makes customizing it very easy.
Cons
Con Doesn't work without OpenGL 2
I used it in Microsoft Edge (on Windows) and it didn't work.
Con Doesn't work without OpenGL 2
I used it in Microsoft Edge (on Windows) and it didn't work.
Con Frequently crashes on Google Chrome
Con Early development stages
It has a few bugs and missing features.
Con Difficult setup
It has a lot of dependencies which is difficult to find and build in Debian. Also most dependencies are not found in the system repository.